Example sentences of "said of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly the same could be said of Leyland — and indeed it was , in the British press . |
| 2 | That can also be said of Guleghina as Desdemona . |
| 3 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 4 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 5 | He hopes it will not be long before the same can be said of Britain . |
| 6 | The same could be said of England ‘ B ’ because , apart from the regular England XV , many others — e.g. Redman , Robinson , Rodber , Pears , Hill , Hall , Heslop and Oti — were n't considered or available . |
| 7 | Four years ago , we would have said of blokes like Cathal Coughlan and Patrick Kane : pop needs more figures like them , spiky , striving , sussed . |
| 8 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 9 | Of course , the same was said of Bob Tway when he won four in 1986 ( including one that Norman should have won ) and that notion disappeared faster than Lord Lucan . |
| 10 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 11 | Not when there 's a mass being said of course . |
| 12 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 13 | And the same can be said of structures . |
| 14 | The other aspect I was gon na suggest is I mean , I 've said of stuff of the environment , Terry 's not if we take topics and we say right there 's a I mean , I 've got these boxes I will donate you know , like letter , you know lo lo boxes which can be labelled and all the information on environment goes in there so that perhaps , we made up , you know plastic , hard plastic . |
| 15 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 16 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 17 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 18 | It could have been said of Ralph too . |
| 19 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 20 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 21 | One character in The Elder Statesman remarks , " Forgery … is a mug 's game " , which is precisely what Eliot had said of poetry twenty-five years before . |
| 22 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |
| 23 | The same can be said of literature in the broader field of gender and science , where there is much which is of interest to mathematics educators . |
| 24 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 25 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 26 | It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution ! |
| 27 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 28 | The same can be said of Christian Dior 's exquisite new five-colour eyeshadow compact Fiction where the key colour , a putty-oyster called Light , is surrounded by gentle shades such as Lavender and Pearl Grey . |
| 29 | The same could be said of Kent 's Matthew Fleming , whose flair for adventure would have thrilled his late Uncle Ian to bits . |
| 30 | The same could be said of America 's Mr Bowe as heavyweight champion until he split his unified title by throwing the WBC belt in a dustbin and fighting a clumsy challenger , Michael Dokes . |